When the homo deamon went digital

Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora

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ID12918233
AuthorsB Camminga (0000-0002-4074-4472, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue3
Pages213-216
Publication date2024-04-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcae007
OpenAlexW4393994901
LanguageEN
References cited20

From an online African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) news and information website, launched in 2000, called Behind the Mask (BtM) to Sokari Ekine’s foundational 2004 blog Blacklooks, the digital has been crucial to queer African studies and, indeed, queer Africa. In this brief exploration, I navigate through the realms of queer African studies, African digital humanities, and African literary studies, using them as my guiding framework to uncover the digital emergence of an African transgender refugee diaspora. I suggest that this diaspora is producing content explicitly aimed back at the African continent to shape and deploy the reality of what it means to be transgender and African. In so doing, they are actively authoring themselves into existence

Diaspora · Lesbian · Queer · Refugee · Sociology · Transgender · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Gender Studies · History

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